92nd Street Y Unterberg “Discovery” Contest Winners

Read the winning poems by
Bridget Lowe, Jynne Dilling Martin, Jeffrey Schultz, and Annabelle Yesseul Yoo

Hear Jeffrey Schultz read his work at the NewsHour’s Art Beat blog.

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Poems

[It’s not true that the world is an unending return]

Tadeusz Dąbrowski (translated by Jennifer Carter-Zielińska)

After Wang Ximeng’s Blue and Green Horizontal Landscape Scroll, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains

Xi Chuan (translated by Arthur Sze)

Mayflower Compact

Marc Walston

Cotton Mather Preaches on Satan

Marc Walston

Homecoming Dance

Jess Sauer

Evaporation 2

Forrest Gander

The Red Cipher

Craig Morgan Teicher

Diabolus in Musica

Christina Mengert

Antietam Primer

Mary Pinard

Poet’s Sampler: Marsha Pomerantz

Introduced by Daniel Bosch

Finally April and the Birds Are Falling Out of the Air with Joy

Anne Carson

Shakur

Terrance Hayes

Ten Venices

James Longenbach

The Feast

David Baker

Blink

Linda Gregerson

E is Everywhere

Mary Jo Bang

Poem for John McCain

Matthew Zapruder

Fawn

Joseph Campana

Outpatient Procedure

Alan Gilbert

The Documents

Mathias Svalina

Flemish

Caroline Knox

Poet’s Sampler: Kristin Fitzsimmons

Introduced by Adam Zagajewski

Essays

The Fetch

Ciaran Carson's For All We Know
Piotr Florczyk

What Country Is This?

Rereading LeRoi Jones's The Dead Lecturer
Adrienne Rich

Love Letters

Loss, friendship and sex appeal in Brenda Wineapple’s White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Cecily Parks

My Fanny Howe

My Fanny Howe
Maureen N. McLane

Fighting Words

A review of Lyn Hejinian’s new book, Saga/Circus
Joyelle McSweeney

After Ariel

Celebrating the poetry of the women’s movement
Honor Moore

Revelation

Brian Teare reviews The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest
Brian Teare

Water Damage

Two new collections challenge lyric’s decorum
Amelia Klein

Listening to Poetry

Jack Spicer’s My Vocabulary Did This to Me
Zack Finch

Wanderer

Jay Wright’s The Presentable Art of Reading Absence and Polynomials and Pollen
Aaron McCollough

Out of Defeat

Aimé Césaire’s miraculous words
Colin Dayan

The Crucified Hand

Frank Bidart's Waiting for the Spring Festival
Raymond McDaniel

Over the Last Limit

Resurrecting Vladimir Mayakovsky
Marjorie Perloff

Free Verse

Alan Filreis's Counter-Revolution of the Word
Charles Bernstein

Landmarks

Kathleen Jamie's Waterlight and Findings
Tess Taylor

The Writing Cure

Don Share's Squandermania
Erin Belieu

Microreviews

Thomas James
Coral Bracho
Bonnie Costello
Ariana Reines
Mary Ruefle
Kevin Young
Devin Johnston
Jennifer Chang